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Fifty-six winters on a small-town ski hill · 1938–1994

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The Last Chair, 1984–1994

The biggest winter in the hill's history, and then its last.

The winter of 1984–85 brought 412 inches of snow, and the staff dug out the Silver Spoon chairs every morning. The cafeteria became the Prospector Grill, and the 1988 trail map showed nine trails, four lifts and the lit night-skiing area.

Then came thin winters. The 1993 Tincup Cup was cancelled, and the Silver Spoon needed replacing. On March 24, 1994, the Harlow Herald reported that the season would be the last. The lifts stopped at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, and Ray Albright rode the last chair down.

“At four o'clock I sent the last chair up empty, the way we always did at closing, and when it came around I rode it down. Then I turned the key.”

Ray Albright, lift operator (oral history, 2009)